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What We Know About Donald Trump Jr.’s Russia Meeting

President Trump’s eldest son was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to a June 2016 meeting with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer.

Who was at the meeting?

Trump associates

Set up meeting

Paul

Manafort

Former campaign

manager

Donald

Trump Jr.

Eldest son

Jared

Kushner

Son-in-law,

senior adviser

Natalia

Veselnitskaya

Russian

lawyer

Anatoli

Samochornov

Translator

Rinat

Akhmetshin

Russian-American

lobbyist

Irakly Kaveladze

Associate of

Russian

businessman

Rob

Goldstone

Music producer,

publicist

Trump associates

Set up meeting

Paul

Manafort

Former

campaign

manager

Jared

Kushner

Son-in-law,

senior adviser

Donald

Trump Jr.

Eldest son

Rob

Goldstone

Music producer,

publicist

Natalia

Veselnitskaya

Russian

lawyer

Anatoli

Samochornov

Translator

Rinat

Akhmetshin

Russian-American

lobbyist

Irakly Kaveladze

Associate

of Russian

businessman

Donald

Trump Jr.

President’s

eldest son

Jared

Kushner

Son-in-law,

senior adviser

Paul

Manafort

Former

campaign

manager

Set up meeting

Rob Goldstone

Music producer,

publicist

Natalia

Veselnitskaya

Russian lawyer

Anatoli

Samochornov

Translator

Rinat

Akhmetshin

Russian-

American lobbyist

Irakly Kaveladze

Associate

of Russian

businessman

How was it set up?

The meeting was set up over a series of emails between Donald Trump Jr. and Rob Goldstone, a music producer and publicist.

Mr. Goldstone offered potentially damaging information about Hillary Clinton that he said was “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”

Donald Trump Jr. responded within minutes. He gave no indication that he was surprised or disturbed by the provenance of the promised material — or the notion that it was part of a continuing effort by the Russian government to aid his father’s campaign. “If it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer,” he wrote.

How are others connected?

Son

Worked on

Miss Universe

in Moscow

Aras Agalarov

Russian

businessman

Emin Agalarov

Russian

pop star

Donald J. Trump

President

Natalia

Veselnitskaya

Russian lawyer

Irakly Kaveladze

Associate of

Aras Agalarov

Rob Goldstone

Music producer,

publicist

Donald J. Trump

President

Worked on Miss

Universe in Moscow

Son

Aras Agalarov

Russian

businessman

Emi Agalarov

Russian

pop star

Natalia

Veselnitskaya

Russian

lawyer

Irakly

Kaveladze

Associate of

Aras Agalarov

Rob

Goldstone

Music producer,

publicist

Mr. Goldstone said he was writing on behalf of Emin Agalarov, whose father, Aras Agalarov, wanted to share the information. According to Aras Agalarov’s lawyer, the men had “no idea what Mr. Goldstone was thinking” when he wrote the email. “It is absolutely not true,” the lawyer said.

Mr. Goldstone arranged for Natalia Veselnitskaya, a lawyer connected to the Russian government who had worked with Aras Agalarov on real estate deals, to meet with Donald Trump Jr. She had asked to be introduced as a favor, Mr. Agalarov’s lawyer said.

Irakly Kaveladze, a business associate of Mr. Agalarov, was at the meeting “just to make sure it happened and to serve as an interpreter if necessary.”

What was discussed?

Donald Trump Jr. acknowledged that he was told that Ms. Veselnitskaya “might have information helpful to the campaign,” but said in the end she offered nothing meaningful. He said that the meeting turned to discussion of the adoption of Russian children and the Magnitsky Act, an American law that sanctions Russians for human rights abuses. Mr. Goldstone gave a similar explanation.

Ms. Veselnitskaya has denied that she discussed anything related to the presidential campaign, saying that she had “never acted on behalf of the Russian government.”